Hi,

I know it doesn't help much, but I can reassure those describing recent
problems with PageStream that the latest version (I am running V5.0.5.8
Pro) will work correctly with a 64-bit Windows 10 installation, up to
and including the very latest Windows 10 updates. That is, unless
someone has placed a curse on you , and sadly that does seem to be
the case with a number of users!

On my desktop PC, I actually have it installed in C:\Program Files(x86),
contrary to popular myths about that being a problematic location. I
have been running it from there for at least 6 years, since I set up my
current desktop PC (then new) with a Windows 8 installation (64-bit). A
few weeks ago, I did the Windows 10 upgrade, and PageStream kept running
without the slightest hiccup (and Windows updates since then have had no
detrimental effects).

At the beginning of the year, I also installed it on a brand new HP
Laptop (I have two PageStream PC licences!) that had Windows 10
installed. There, I also put it into C:\Program Files(x86). I did run
into some initial problems in running it there, but that turned out to
be because I was trying to be a little too clever: I had copied my
PageStream5.ini file (in C:\Users\malcolm\AppData\Roaming\PageStream5)
from my desktop PC into the equivalent location on the laptop, as I
wanted to avoid having to re-do all my settings from scratch. I did
make some necessary changes in that file to the location paths for my
documents etc. (as the set-up for my drives was a bit different). Apart
from those changes, I assumed everything else would be OK, especially as
both my desktop machine and my laptop both had full HD screens
(1920x1080). How wrong I was! PageStream just wouldn't work (there was
an error message, but I can't remember now what it was). Eventually, I
tried renaming the 'ini file, so PageStream would create its own really
basic one, and suddenly it started working. Knowing then that the
problem lay somewhere in the full.ini file, I began laboriously
re-introducing each of the settings from that into the simple one:
eventually, I found the culprit lines, and it turned out that they were
ones to do with screen settings.

As I said at the outset, I know that my good fortune with PageStream
doesn't help much, but what it does tell us is that there is an answer
somewhere to your problems.

Best wishes

Malcolm

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Malcolm & Marilyn Kays

South Hobart Tasmania AUSTRALIA

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:24:42 +1000
"'M. Kays' mkays@netspace.net.au [PageStreamSupport]"
<PageStreamSupport@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I know it doesn't help much, but I can reassure those describing
> recent problems with PageStream that the latest version (I am running
> V5.0.5.8 Pro) will work correctly with a 64-bit Windows 10
> installation, up to and including the very latest Windows 10 updates.
> That is, unless someone has placed a curse on you , and sadly that
> does seem to be the case with a number of users!
>
>
> On my desktop PC, I actually have it installed in C:\Program
> Files(x86), contrary to popular myths about that being a problematic
> location. I have been running it from there for at least 6 years,
> since I set up my current desktop PC (then new) with a Windows 8
> installation (64-bit). A few weeks ago, I did the Windows 10
> upgrade, and PageStream kept running without the slightest hiccup
> (and Windows updates since then have had no detrimental effects).
>
>
> At the beginning of the year, I also installed it on a brand new HP
> Laptop (I have two PageStream PC licences!) that had Windows 10
> installed. There, I also put it into C:\Program Files(x86). I did
> run into some initial problems in running it there, but that turned
> out to be because I was trying to be a little too clever: I had
> copied my PageStream5.ini file (in
> C:\Users\malcolm\AppData\Roaming\PageStream5) from my desktop PC into
> the equivalent location on the laptop, as I wanted to avoid having to
> re-do all my settings from scratch. I did make some necessary
> changes in that file to the location paths for my documents etc. (as
> the set-up for my drives was a bit different). Apart from those
> changes, I assumed everything else would be OK, especially as both my
> desktop machine and my laptop both had full HD screens (1920x1080).
> How wrong I was! PageStream just wouldn't work (there was an error
> message, but I can't remember now what it was). Eventually, I tried
> renaming the 'ini file, so PageStream would create its own really
> basic one, and suddenly it started working. Knowing then that the
> problem lay somewhere in the full.ini file, I began laboriously
> re-introducing each of the settings from that into the simple one:
> eventually, I found the culprit lines, and it turned out that they
> were ones to do with screen settings.
>
>
> As I said at the outset, I know that my good fortune with PageStream
> doesn't help much, but what it does tell us is that there is an
> answer somewhere to your problems.
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> Malcolm
>
>

Thanks for explaining how you solved your problems, I'll try again...
later. Right now I have a very sick server with an even sicker client
who dearly misses his data 8-/.

For whatever reason... and I have NO idea as to why PageStream suddenly decided... I am now printing using the French language set... although Preferences says I am set to American.  I have set my overall Windows to Canadian, and perhaps that is confusing things.  I get a capital E with the accent mark in place of a question mark, and I get a quotation mark where my "at" sign should be... my "at" sign and question mark seem to be MIA... I`ve typed everything trying to find it.  So, anyone have suggestions as to how I can get my system back to Canadian English.... or even American English... so that I can actually type what I want... can`t get a question mark to show up there... have clicked on all the other keys, both shifted and non-shifted!!!  Most other things seem to be as they should be....

So, help!!!

Gil K

-- 
Redacteur, illustrator bij Ligfiets.net

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